Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

- The Shop On Blossom Street (Mira Books, hardcover, 5/04) spent four weeks on the New York Times extended bestseller list, reaching #19.

- 44 Cranberry Point (Mira Books, paperback, 9/09) reached #8 on the New York Times bestseller list.

- Changing Habits (Mira Books, hardcover, 5/03) was a critical success and reached #32 on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller list.

- Between Friends (Mira Books, paperback, 4/03) was a New York Times bestseller, reaching #11, a USA Today bestseller, reaching #12, and a Publishers Weekly bestseller, reaching #15.

- The Snow Bride (Mira Books, gift hardcover, 10/03) reached #22 on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller list.

- The Christmas Basket (Mira Books, gift hardcover, 10/02) reached #31 on the New York Times extended hardcover bestseller list.

- 204 Rosewood Lane (Mira Books, paperback, 9/02) spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, reaching #12, five weeks on the USA Today bestseller list, reaching #12, and reached #14 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list.

Synopsis:

Four lives knit together... There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies and patterns - and now you can join a knitting class. Lydia Hoffman owns the shop, which she calls A Good Yarn. It represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life...

What Our Readers Are Saying

Average customer rating based on 2 comments:

Prentise Wylie, January 29, 2013 (view all comments by Prentise Wylie)
Easy to read, flowing, gripping without too much drama, this book will make women want close female friends if they don't have them, value the ones they do have, and be open to women whom they previously had thought were too different from themselves. I especially liked the way the story is told from the point of view of each of the four main female characters, who are all described clearly, so that it is easy to visualize them and their lives in your mind's eye... I felt as though I knew them, and certainly wanted to.

While romance was part of the theme, it also involved relationships between sisters, parents and their offspring, and friends... and the development of strong friendship ties among the four very different women, ties that could only occur in unique circumstances such as the knitting circle, is touching and gratifying. We get to see beyond each of their outer defenses into their hearts, minds, and souls.

Twice, when apparently obvious and trite solutions to dilemmas did not happen, I was relieved (it would have been boringly easy) and very pleased at the original ways that they were resolved.

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Four lives knit together... There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies and patterns - and now you can join a knitting class. Lydia Hoffman owns the shop, which she calls A Good Yarn. It represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life...

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